Verdant Wind
Available: After The Golden Scheme
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Byleth, Lysithea enter the scene
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Lysithea
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Thank you for helping me with my training again today, Professor.
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Lysithea
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I'm gonna keep at it for a while longer, so you go on ahead.
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You should get some rest.
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Lysithea
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I can't. Not when I'm right on the cusp of using my power to greater potential.
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Lysithea
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Surely you yourself are tired. Just...don't worry about me, OK?
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Byleth, Lysithea enter the scene
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Lysithea
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I'm sorry, Professor. It was careless of me to continue, despite how fatigued I clearly was.
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Lysithea
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I probably should have listened to you. Now I've made a mess of things.
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Lysithea
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I can't help but feel the need to rush, in all things, constantly. You get that way when you realize... you haven't got much time.
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What do you mean?
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Lysithea
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I believe I've mentioned that House Ordelia was, at one time, being controlled by people from the Empire.
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Lysithea
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During that time, strange people—mages, perhaps— came and performed rituals on all the youth within my family.
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Lysithea
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Eighteen years ago, House Ordelia was involved in a civil conflict within the Empire.
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Lysithea
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All we did was respond to a call for aid. We weren't involved politically.
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Lysithea
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But once the rebellion was crushed, my family was held responsible for the aid we gave, and the Empire gained some sway over us as a result.
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Lysithea
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At the time, the noble houses of the Alliance took a passive stance. No one lent aid to my family.
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Lysithea
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As a result, some key officials within the family were killed, and people from the Empire were sent to replace them.
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Lysithea
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Among those people were some mysterious mages. They were...unsettling, in a word. Skin pale as death.
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Lysithea
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One after another, they captured and imprisoned the children of our household.
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Lysithea
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They began performing terrible rituals on the children... Though it's probably more accurate to call them experiments.
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Lysithea
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With the Empire monitoring our every move, my parents could do nothing but watch in horror as all of this unfolded.
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Lysithea
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One after another, the children died, until the only one left...was me.
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Lysithea
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You know, my hair wasn't always this color.
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Lysithea
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During their experiments, they'd been doing things with my blood. One morning, I awoke like this— a shock of white hair, all trace of pigment, gone.
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Lysithea
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Upon seeing me, the mages were delighted. They realized that their experiments had finally succeeded.
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Lysithea
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Sure enough, they ran a test and saw that two Crests coexisted within me.
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Lysithea
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Losing pigment from my hair wasn't the only loss.
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Lysithea
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The mages informed me that my lifespan was now greatly shortened.
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Lysithea
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Five more years at most. Perhaps less.
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How awful...
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Lysithea
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Shortly thereafter, the mages lost interest in me, and we never saw them in the Ordelia household again.
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Lysithea
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Since all that, our family has been in decline—it's challenging now even to govern our territory.
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Lysithea
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After all my mother and father have suffered, I at least want them to have peace as they grow older.
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Lysithea
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That is all I wish for...but I haven't much time to ensure it comes to pass.
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It's too soon to give up.
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Lysithea
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It's not like what's been done to me can be undone.
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Let's try to find a way to undo it.
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Lysithea
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Professor...
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Lysithea
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The only way I can conceive of would be to remove my Crests somehow.
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Lysithea
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But I don't know if that's even remotely possible. Even if it were...
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Lysithea
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I wouldn't be of much use to you and the others without my Crests.
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We will find a way.
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Lysithea
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You sound resolved. I'll allow your resolve to bolster my own!
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Lysithea
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Thank you, Professor.